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“Without the techno dabbling it still wouldn’t have been a great record, but it would have been ten times better.” - JOHN PLATT re: the DINOSAURS

BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS Issue #18 February 1989 (page 20) JON STOREY, Editor

BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS

The Dinosaurs are the very same dinosaurs who forced Dinosaur to change their name to Dinosaur, Jr in 1987.

PHILO CALHOUN was a pseudonym for JOHN PLATT. According to Ptolemaic Terrascope’s PHIL MCMULLEN when interviewed in Foxy Digitalis by Nuno Robles, “…of course we must never forget the late John Platt – aka Philo Calhoun in Bucketfull of Brains magazine (most of the time; actually I acted as a ghost-writer on a couple of occasions when he was unable to contribute): John’s ‘Comstock Lode’ magazine was just phenomenal. We all looked up to John. Funnily enough I was talking about this just the other evening with Nigel Cross and Colin Hill. The three of us enjoyed a rare “get-together” at a gig in London recently, and I suggested that someone somewhere really ought to be writing a book about the whole scene before it’s too late. We’ve already lost John Platt – who knows who else will be next? People like Pete Frame and John Platt and John Tobler and Nick Ralph and Brian Hogg (whose ‘Hot Wacks’ fanzine I remember fondly, though I never much rated ‘Strange Things’ magazine that he was associated with briefly later on) – plus of course Nigel and Colin themselves – and I suppose me too now, though I never really like to think of myself as being in the same league as those guys; we’ve produced an incredible body of work between us which has largely never been properly catalogued or documented, and even though many of them are almost household names amongst underground rock fans, nobody really knows who they are or what makes them tick. I think that’s such a shame, y’know?”

John Platt was, according to his discogs entry, a “…music librarian, archivist and aficionado of the psychedelic music era. Platt became an active librarian in 1970. Between 1977-1982 he published the San Francisco psychedelic scene magazine Comstock Lode. He also wrote and published Yardbirds (1983), London’s Rock Routes (1985) and Disraeli Gears(1998). He married in 1992 and moved to NYC in 1993, where he created the Lincoln Center Cinerock Festival. Following Platt’s death in 2001 his wife, Marylou Capes, donated The John Platt Collection to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. on 6th November 2007. The Foundation transferred the collection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. on March 31, 2011.”

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The Roberts

photo by: John Platt

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Menorah in the Middle (2022) directed by Jordan Kessler written by Jordan Kessler and Kevin Weisberg

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The Rugby Scrum, 1922 John Edgar Platt

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Fratini, Gina

Born: Kobe, Japan, 1934

One of the key instigators of the 1960s romantic movement, Gina Fratini had Irish parentage but was raised in Japan. Her father, the Honourable Somerset Butler, was the twin brother of the Earl of Carrick.

In 1947 Fratini attended the Royal College of Art in London and then joined the Katerine Dunham dance group, assisting the costume and set designer, John Platt.…

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